Reading popular Newtonianism : print, the Principia, and the dissemination of Newtonian science / Laura Miller.

By:

Miller, Laura, 1975- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813941257
0813941253
9780813941264
0813941261

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading popular Newtonianism.DDC classification:

531 23

LOC classification:

QA803 .M55 2017eb

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Contents:

The weight of authority in Newton's reading and correspondence -- The universe in a book : the attractions of print in the Principia -- Newtonian popularization and masculinity in two poems about Newton -- Extending popularization in English-language editions of Francesco Algarotti's works -- Reading popular Newtonianism at the New York Society Library, 1789-1792.

Summary: "Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Sir Isaac Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Using sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to Newton's reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, she analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well actual readers whose preferences we can trace and interpret based on the New York Society Library's borrowing records. By beginning with the publication of the Principia, Miller revises the timeline in which Newton's scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture"-- Provided by publisher

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"Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Sir Isaac Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Using sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to Newton's reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, she analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well actual readers whose preferences we can trace and interpret based on the New York Society Library's borrowing records. By beginning with the publication of the Principia, Miller revises the timeline in which Newton's scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture"-- Provided by publisher